MANCHESTER CITY have been snubbed in their attempts to sign wonderkid Jeremy Monga.
It comes as the teenage England youth star put pen to paper on a professional contract at Leicester.
Jeremy Monga has signed a professional contract with Leicester[/caption]
Despite being just 15 years old, Monga has already featured for the Foxes first team during the 2024/25 season.
Following a 16-minute debut off the bench against Newcastle in the Premier League, Monga went on to make a further six league appearances for the club under Ruud van Nistelrooy.
A club statement on Monday confirmed Monga was one of nine youngsters from the Academy who would be staying at the club.
It read: “Nine exciting young talents from our Academy will extend their stays with Leicester City after a combination of new contracts, extension options and scholarship agreements were confirmed…
“Meanwhile, Jeremy Monga has committed to commencing his professional career as a Leicester City player, with an agreement now in place to secure the talented teenager’s future at King Power Stadium.
“Jeremy will begin his Academy scholarship this summer with his first professional contract scheduled to commence in summer 2026.
“Our second-youngest appearance maker and the second-youngest player in Premier League history, having made the first of his seven Premier League appearances against Newcastle United in April, aged 15 years and 271 days, Jeremy is among an exciting group currently progressing on our Academy pathway, which he joined as an Under-9.”
The versatile winger has been captain of England‘s Under-16s too and trained with City’s U-21s squad as a result of his potential.
But that only helped to catch the eye of some of Europe’s top clubs, with City among those who were hoping to tie up a move this summer.
However, they have failed in their attempts to lure him away from the King Power Stadium.
Monga almost made history by becoming the youngest ever Premier League goalscorer against Nottingham Forest, only to be denied by Matz Sels.
Van Nistelrooy was boisterous on his future and said at the time: “That would have been some story if Jeremy could have topped his exam week with a winner away at Forest.
“If he stays here and this is his future we can build more minutes into his pathway.
“I’ve had many conversations with him and his family. And so hopefully he can sign soon – it’s up to him.
“It’s a joy to work with him and sometimes we speak about GCSEs and mathematics. I even have to help him with his studies sometimes!
“But if he had scored the winner against Forest that would have been a real fairytale.”
